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... in communications, I will be using the following terms for my sentence level definitions: press release,
investigative journalism, yellow journalism, public journalism, and objective journalism.
...

... programs—setting aside much of the controversy involving what was
called the New World Information Order. The following discussion tries to
apply the ethical standards without emphasis on First Amendment protection, necessary if standards are to be global.
Nonetheless, the power and popularity of th ...

... Soon after, Anita Sarkeesian, was
scheduled to speak at Utah State
University but canceled because
the school refused to screen
visitors for weapons due to Utah’s
‘open carry’ gun law, despite
anonymous threats of violence
...

... the first part or angle of the story. Journalists today don't dig as much...Their primary
source is Google'.
The complexity of this issue was born out in discussions of widely heralded
participatory or social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. 'Many journalists have
their own blogs, so if people ...

... Americas: Journalists in Latin America have been victims of drug cartels, guerrilla groups and
organized crime. However, in countries like Venezuela, media outlets are suffering recent legislation
proposals that would lead to less watchdogs and more government control over content. For example,
Vene ...

... benefits the powerful, not the powerless. Labeling, rating, and filtering systems
are censors' tools. Censorship is deleting parts of publications or
correspondence or theatrical performances. It is official prohibition or restriction
of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, soc ...

... Approach to Regulation of Bloggers and Citizen
Journalists
 The law does not generally make any distinctions
between journalists and the rest of the population
for the purposes of civil or criminal liability.
...

... Media, print media included, have been often misused as instruments of propaganda and to spread
hatred as it was the case in the most recent history of Kosovo and western Balkans. However that
has changed a lot since then.
Kosovo is now a society going through a wide-ranging transition – political, ...

... Ethics and social responsibility
• Some things can be legal, but
unethical
• Is a story a matter of public interest?
• What benefit will the public receive?
• Police may ask journalists not to report
on a particular issue
• Chequebook journalism
...

... physical violence against reporters, the high level of self-censorship, lack of adequate
information regarding the ownership of media, and the consolidation of broadcast news
outlets in the hands of ruling regime representatives and their allies.
There were 9 registered cases of physical violence ag ...

... WHEREAS, freedom of the press in America has been cherished since at least 1733, when John Peter
Zenger, a New York publisher, criticized the newly appointed colonial governor of New York, was sued by
him for libel and was famously acquitted in a defense mounted by Alexander Hamilton; and
WHEREAS, t ...

... there would not be another chance to publish the paper. He felt
like he had to make a quick decision, so he told Emerson to
delete the two pages with the questionable articles and publish the
remainder of the paper. He informed his superiors in the school
system of this decision; they supported him ...

Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through mediums including various electronic media and published materials. While such freedom mostly implies the absence of interference from an overreaching state, its preservation may be sought through constitutional or other legal protections.With respect to governmental information, any government may distinguish which materials are public or protected from disclosure to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified or secret and being otherwise protected from disclosure due to relevance of the information to protecting the national interest. Many governments are also subject to sunshine laws or freedom of information legislation that are used to define the ambit of national interest.The United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: ""Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers""This philosophy is usually accompanied by legislation ensuring various degrees of freedom of scientific research (known as scientific freedom), publishing, press and printing the depth to which these laws are entrenched in a country's legal system can go as far down as its constitution. The concept of freedom of speech is often covered by the same laws as freedom of the press, thereby giving equal treatment to spoken and published expression.